Interactive tool · Ordering
Under-ordering uniform is the expensive option: it shows up as re-worn kit, emergency washes and a team that looks tired by Thursday. The maths is simple once you're honest about one thing — how often washing actually happens, not how often it should.
The tool
Rules of thumb
| Situation | Sets | The logic |
|---|---|---|
| Office / showroom, weekly home wash, 5 shifts | 5–6 | A clean garment per shift plus one spare |
| Trades, washing every 2–3 days | 4 | Bridge the wash cycle, plus the spare |
| Chef whites, 5 services | 6 | Fresh whites every service — re-worn whites are visible from the pass; see washing chef whites |
| Scrubs, home-laundered per policy | 4–5 | Fresh set per shift within a hot-wash rotation — see laundering scrubs |
| Hi-vis over other layers | 2–3 | Worn over kit, washed less often — but fading retires it; don't run it to rags |
Ordering notes
Questions
Enough clean sets to bridge the gap between washes, plus one spare. Five shifts with a weekly wash means five or six sets; washing every couple of days brings it down to about four. Hygiene-critical kit — chef whites, scrubs — adds one more, because it can't be re-worn between washes.
Around 5% of the total order (minimum a couple of sets), spread across the sizes you actually employ. Spares absorb stains, snags and new starters without triggering an emergency reorder — which matters double for embroidered kit, where replacements aren't express.
Over the garment's life, usually yes. Each extra set in the rotation cuts the number of washes every garment takes, and washing is what ages workwear — colour, print, tape and treatment all fade per cycle. Bigger order, slower replacement clock.
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